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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Vatican City, 3 September 2014 (VIS) –
The following is a list of the activities linked to the Holy See
during the month of August 2014:

12: The Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue issues a declaration on “the reinstatement
of the Caliphate”, which was abolished in 1923 by Kamal Ataturk,
founder of modern Turkey, affirming that opposition to this
“reinstatement” by the majority of Muslim religious and political
institutions has not prevented the jihadists of the “Muslim State”
from committing unspeakable criminal acts that this dicastery, like
all those involved in interreligious dialogue, the followers of all
religions and all men and women of goodwill can only denounce and
condemn. It emphasises that “Christians and Muslims have been able
to live alongside one another – certainly with highs and lows –
for centuries, building a culture of co-existence and a civilisation
of which they are proud”.

13: The Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”
communicates that, since the month of June, humanitarian assistance
programmes for Iraqi refugees have been underway. These programmes
are organised by the local Church, in particular via Caritas Iraq,
and have already reached 4000 families. Other national entities of
the Caritas family have joined in the efforts, with the co-ordination
of Caritas International.

21: The Pontifical Council “Justice
and Peace” announces that Pope Francis has chosen the theme for the
48th World Day of Peace 2015, celebrated every year on 1 January:
“Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters”, and commented that in
the contemporary world, slavery assumes many abominable faces: human
trafficking, the trade in migrants and prostitution, forced labour,
the exploitation of man by his peers, and the enslavement of women
and children.

25: The director of the Holy See Press
Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., issued a communique on the
nuncio Jozef Wesoloswki, who appealed against the first grade
canonical sentence of laicisation. The archbishop, who has already
been dismissed from his diplomatic role and therefore no longer
benefits from immunity, may also be subject to trial by other
competent judicial bodies.